Titan Biotechnology

After several shell companies secretly acquired them, many of the factories in the industrial area where Titan Environmental was located fell into Tang Shizhe's hands.

Following a bidding process, the ten selected construction companies began moving into the industrial park.

All roads leading to the industrial park were closed off, and countless construction vehicles began pouring into the enormous construction site.

Only then did the people who had sold their factories learn that the buyer was none other than the fast-rising Titan Environmental! If they'd known it was this company, they would've asked for more money. After all, Titan Environmental was loaded.

After notifying the local municipal authorities, the industrial area was officially renamed Titan Environmental Industrial Park.

According to Tang Shizhe's plan, the walls between the factories in the area would be torn down, and each large block surrounded by roads would become a separate sub-plant zone.

Each sub-plant zone would be enclosed by a three-meter-high wall topped with fifty centimeters of high-voltage fencing. Bridges would connect each zone to the surrounding ones, and underground tunnels would be built later to link them as well.

As a result, the entire industrial area was divided into eight sub-plant zones: A, B, D, E, F, G, and H.

All the factories would be renovated to match Titan Environmental's current facilities, with more green spaces and redesigned building exteriors. The factories' sealing and structural strength would also be improved.

The DJI Drone Swarm, controlled by software programmed by the Splitters, would patrol the area alongside ground vehicles.

A total of one thousand cameras would be installed throughout the industrial park. Eight watchtowers and guard posts would also be built at its eight entrances. The guard posts would monitor all vehicles entering the park and prevent anything dangerous from getting inside.

Since Titan Environmental had become Jiaodong City's largest company, the municipal authorities turned a blind eye to everything it did.

"What? They've built watchtowers? They're just large observation decks."

"What? You've reported them for building guard posts at the intersections? No, no, those are public service stations built in cooperation with city hall. They're mainly there to help lost pedestrians and check vehicles for damage."

"What? You've also reported that their security guards wear heavy-duty protective gear and carry batons and shields? No, no, the security staff are just playing cosplay."

That was the obvious advantage of becoming an industry leader. And now that the company had become a joint venture with investors from several countries and was growing so rapidly, it was bound to become a global giant sooner or later.

Just imagine the achievements the city would be credited with for keeping them in Jiaodong! And how much tax they'd pay once their three-year tax exemption ended!

Surrounded by all these advantages, Titan Environmental could do whatever it wanted without a hitch.

As Titan Environmental expanded at a breakneck pace, a company called Titan Biotechnology quietly opened its doors in neighboring Danning City.

The company had registered capital of 480 million, and all its shares were held by Titan Group. Right after its establishment, it acquired a local contract battery factory and retained some of the factory's experienced employees.

At the same time, the newly acquired factory began sending out a large number of orders. Titan Biotechnology started waving its money around, buying all kinds of equipment across the country.

Since the batteries Tang Shizhe planned to unveil had an extremely simple structure, the production equipment was actually quite basic. A production line capable of manufacturing the Purification Tree could also produce 500,000 batteries a day.

The equipment they were buying now was merely a smokescreen. Some of the research equipment would do nothing but gather dust.

But outsiders keeping an eye on Titan Group didn't see it that way. All they noticed was that the group had suddenly used its recently received dividends to establish a new subsidiary.

And the new subsidiary had acquired a contract battery factory almost as soon as it was founded.

Just as people assumed Titan Biotechnology was planning to enter the contract manufacturing business, it began buying large quantities of battery research equipment all across the country.

Though the equipment it bought was secondhand and not particularly advanced, it still attracted the attention of battery industry giants around the world.

What was Titan Biotechnology up to? Did it actually want to make batteries? They had to be crazy. A company that worked in biotechnology was getting into batteries? Diversification wasn't supposed to be that much of a leap.

Still, they probably wouldn't develop any battery technology in the near future. The field was already hemmed in by countless patents, and research and testing required enormous investment.

Titan Biotechnology wouldn't amount to much for years. Even if they poured all the money earned by Titan Environmental into poaching technical experts, other companies would have brought more advanced batteries to market by then.

They had no idea that Titan Biotechnology had no plans to release a new battery in the short term. Tang Shizhe needed that time to lay the groundwork.

During this period, Titan Environmental would gradually publish some opinions on Bio-batteries under its own name.

While Titan Biotechnology steadily expanded under the Splitters' leadership, a milestone event for Titan Group took place on the third basement level of Titan Environmental's office building.

The third basement level of Titan Environmental's office building.

Half of the entire basement level had been sealed off, with large quantities of black-gold panels wrapping tightly around the space.

The only way in was through a narrow, ten-meter-long corridor. The reinforced concrete walls on both sides were ten meters thick.

Inside the enormous, tightly sealed room stood rows of server racks. Numerous pipes and cables extended from the tops of the racks and disappeared into the ceiling.

That's right: these server racks housed the supercomputer Tang Shizhe had secretly assembled from purchased parts.

Its computing power wasn't enough to rank among the world's best, but it could at least meet Tang Shizhe's daily needs.

The water pipes cooling the servers connected to an underground stream, ensuring that the machines wouldn't overheat.

Alongside the water-cooling system, there was also a powerful chiller. Its heat exhaust pipes led directly to an artificial lake in the industrial park aboveground.

The machine had finally been completed that day, and all its software had been tested and debugged.

Outside the corridor leading to the server room was the supercomputer's control center.

Every wall in the control center was covered with monitors, except for the one bearing a large screen. Fifty computers and their desks and chairs filled the room.

At full capacity, the control room could accommodate a hundred people working at once, allowing the Splitters to make the most of their computing abilities.

The supercomputer wasn't currently performing calculations for the Splitters' research. It had a special task.

It was scanning the internet for activity related to the keywords "Titan," "Environmental," "Purification Tree," "Siman," "Victor," and "Tang Shizhe."

The moment it detected information containing any of these terms, it would capture it at once.